grover norquist wants his government to stop. he wants government to stop. he wants to replace the government we have with some undescribed alternative with alternate taxation or no taxation. we have no idea what kind of government grover norquist supports because he hasn't described that. he is not very clear about that. what he is clear about is how much he hates the american government. and i, for one, completely support his right to express that hatred in whatever homicidal terms he chooses on any given day, but think, please, just please think what it would be like if someone else tried to use the words of grover norquist publicly, someone, say, who is not white, someone who did not work for newt gingrich in the congress, someone who had not worked for the reagan campaigns. barry levinson offered this thought exercise in his article, grover and the bathtub. say his name is not grover norquist. he is a black man or latino or for that matter any minority, and he says as norquist did, our goal is to inflict pain. it is not enough to win. it has to be a way